Top 367 Scorn Quotes & Sayings

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

True artists scorn nothing.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

I scorn you, scurvy companion.

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

Do not scorn little victories.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

A little scorn is alluring.

My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.